FPVCraft 0.2.0 – build your own quad, fly long range, race your friends

The big builder update: put your drone together from real parts, fly far beyond your render distance and race through your own gates.

New

• Drone Workbench and parts: build your own quad from frame, motors, props, flight controller stack, camera, VTX and battery. The workbench shows weight, thrust-to-weight, top speed, flight time and range before you build, and refuses combinations that cannot fly.
  • Frames: 2-inch Whoop, 5-inch Freestyle, 7-inch Long Range, Cinelifter
  • Motors from 1103 8000 KV to 2807 1300 KV, matching props, 12 A to 60 A stacks
  • Cameras (nano, micro, micro long range) and an action cam dummy that adds weight
  • VTX 25, 200, 800 and 1600 mW: more power, more range
  • LiPos from 3S 450 mAh to 6S 5000 mAh
• Battery Charger: put a pack in and it charges; the block lights up while charging.
• Long range: the world now loads around the drone. Your body stays at the take-off spot, the drone flies as far as its VTX reaches (about 330 blocks at 25 mW up to about 2600 blocks at 1600 mW). If something hits your body, the flight ends and you are back on your feet.
• FPV Goggles: wear them for the camera view with OSD. Without goggles you fly line of sight with a chase view.
• Motor and wind sound: the motors whine with throttle, wind rushes with speed.
• Turtle mode (key T): crashed upside down? Roll or pitch flips the quad back onto its feet.
• New drone model with spinning props, antenna and status LEDs: green disarmed, red armed, amber blinking on a low pack, blue in turtle mode, purple blinking in failsafe.
• Racing: Race Gates (fly through) and Race Flags (fly around).
  • Dye a marker to choose the course colour, right-click with an empty hand to set its number (0 = start/finish).
  • Lap time, gates passed, last and best lap and the course record in the OSD.
  • Lap times are taken on the server and announced in chat. Several pilots can race at once, and every course keeps its record.

Changed

• Range is no longer capped by render distance.
• The OSD distance is measured from the take-off spot.
• The old FPV Drone item still works and flies as a standard 5-inch.

Known limitations

• Forge 1.20.1 is not supported yet.